We came through fine here. Just lots of wind and rain. Down limbs is the worst for me. We lost power for about 4 hours which was not a big deal. I'm just glad we did not get the snow this year. Last year we lost power for 3 or 4 days and it was cold outside.

It looks pretty bad for others though. Imagine being a New York firefighter and haviing to watch in horror as that neighborhood burned down. Not good at all.

Thank you all for the mentions and concerns. I truly appreciate them and am glad to hear others are also checking in ok. :)

-Danny

I'm sitting here in Chicago counting my blessing and noticed we are just now starting to get remnants of the storm.  We have rain/front coming from the east...which is unheard of here.  It should be just a light rain for us,  we have a pleasant forecast for the week,  but for me to see radar of rain circling from the east just seems strange.  Must have been a whopper of a storm.  I heard at one point it covered 900 miles...wheww....  

I'm sitting comfortable in Colorado but I have friends and relatives in the Northeast. I gotta say, thats  mighty nice of you guys from across the pond. If anyone would like to help here is some info:

"Now is the time we need the financial support  to support us in other states. Generous contributions are what keeps the Red Cross alive. Folks can go to our website at redcross.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS or you can even just text a $10 gift buy, by texting the word 'redcross' to 90999, but this is how we do what we do," Shimanski said.

Rocky

 

Thanks for the concern! I'm suffering a mega power outage that may go on for the best part of a week. It's an outrage! You probably heard about the explosions at the Con Edison station on Avenue C - I was basically right next to the place snapping photos of flooded streets when it happened. 

So it was a hell of a boom and a few people fell over with the shock. Like a bomb going off, but with a very eerie green and blue flash. Immediately, all the lights went out and panic ensued. Downtown Manhattan is a pretty scary place in a blackout. People were screaming and running - me, I just let loose a few expletives and sauntered off home to a dark apartment. 


So, it's been a pretty weird time since then. Not only do I have no power but no phone service either, basically cut off entirely. I also have a business to run, employees to coordinate and customers to keep happy - all very hard during a blackout in a city in which there is very little public transport running. 


Nights down here are very spooky and a little dangerous. There are no traffic lights so crossing the street is a little hairy. I'm just very angry with Con Ed - they knew they were right in the flooding zone, but they failed to shut off their transformers with the result that instead of a 24 hours without power, there are close to 300,000 people here without power for maybe even a week. They really screwed up big time. Anyway, no more Sonar for me for the time being! And my online activity is limited to whenever I can get uptown to charge my phone and get data access. 


Thanks for asking everyone!

Oh good. Thanks for letting us know. Be careful of the hairless apes. They can be dangerous when frightened.

Finally got my power back today at noon here in north eastern Connecticut.  Lot's of road closures to downed trees but given last years storm (first Irene and then the October snowstorm - both casing close to a week each with power outages) I was better at preparing this time - plenty of food, water, firewood for the wood stove,., than I was for those others storms.

Glad the power outage was only a few days for us but keeping those to the south of my location along the coast of CT, NY, and NJ in my thoughts as the images of the destruction some of these communities suffered is terrible indeed.

Hey Jind,

Yep, still alive and kickin' and got our power back here too.

Definitely better than last year when the power was out for over 9 days!

Scott

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sharke


Thanks for the concern! I'm suffering a mega power outage that may go on for the best part of a week. It's an outrage! You probably heard about the explosions at the Con Edison station on Avenue C - I was basically right next to the place snapping photos of flooded streets when it happened. 

So it was a hell of a boom and a few people fell over with the shock. Like a bomb going off, but with a very eerie green and blue flash. Immediately, all the lights went out and panic ensued. Downtown Manhattan is a pretty scary place in a blackout. People were screaming and running - me, I just let loose a few expletives and sauntered off home to a dark apartment. 


So, it's been a pretty weird time since then. Not only do I have no power but no phone service either, basically cut off entirely. I also have a business to run, employees to coordinate and customers to keep happy - all very hard during a blackout in a city in which there is very little public transport running. 


Nights down here are very spooky and a little dangerous. There are no traffic lights so crossing the street is a little hairy. I'm just very angry with Con Ed - they knew they were right in the flooding zone, but they failed to shut off their transformers with the result that instead of a 24 hours without power, there are close to 300,000 people here without power for maybe even a week. They really screwed up big time. Anyway, no more Sonar for me for the time being! And my online activity is limited to whenever I can get uptown to charge my phone and get data access. 


Thanks for asking everyone!

Glad to hear you're okay, sharke.  Was a little worried, especially when they showed the Con Edison Station explosion on the news over here in the U.K., having heard from you "As it happened".
 
Hope the power comes back on soon.

Glad to hear people are coming through OK. The pictures look pretty crazy...

On the topic of trampolines, couldn't you just turn them upside down?! Surely that'd do the trick!

They were pretty big here in Aus at least when I grew up in the 90's. Don't think they are so big now though cause parents are all probably panicking that their children will fall and break a bone. Pft. Get over it! It's part of being a kid! My kids (when I have some) are getting trampolines for sure! Well, partially for them, partially for me haha!